Thursday, January 29, 2015

White House Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz named
preserving President Obama's executive amnesty as the only "bright line"
for the White House in the upcoming Department of Homeland Security
funding bill.

"Our view is we want a clean DHS bill," Schultz
said. "I've seen some reports of Republicans sort of floating certain
riders and such that our bright line thus far has been we will veto
anything that includes a rollback of the president's executive actions
on immigration."

Obama's unprecedented executive action on
immigration, issued just this past November, would grant
temporary amnesty to more than 4 million illegal immigrants including,
work permits, Social Security numbers, drivers licenses, and billions of dollars in tax credits.

Can Israel Survive?

Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East
and North Africa. Eight million Israelis are surrounded by some 400
million Muslims in more than 20 states. Almost all of Israel's neighbors
are anti-Israeli dictatorships, monarchies or theocracies-- a number of
them reduced to a state of terrorist chaos.

Given the rise of
radical Islam, the huge petrodollar wealth of the Middle East and
lopsided demography, how has Israel so far survived?

The Jewish state has always depended on three unspoken assumptions for its tenuous existence.
First,
a democratic, nuclear Israel can deter larger enemies. In the Cold War,
Soviet-backed Arab enemies understood that Israel's nuclear arsenal
prevented them from destroying Tel Aviv.

Second, the Western
traditions of Israel -- free-market capitalism, democracy, human rights
-- ensured a dynamic economy, high-tech weapons, innovative industry and
stable government. In other words, 8 million Israelis could count on a
greater gross domestic product, less internal violence and more
innovation than, say, nearby Egypt, a mess with 10 times more people
that Israel and nearly 50 times more land.

Third, Israel counted on Western moral support from America and Europe, as well as military support from the United States.

Israel's
stronger allies have often come to the defense of its democratic
principles and pointed out that the world applies an unfair standard to
Israel, largely out of envy of its success, anti-Semitism, fear of
terrorism and fondness of oil exporters.

Why, for example, does
the United Nations focus so much attention on Palestinians who fled
Israel nearly 70 years ago but ignore Muslims who were forced out of
India, or Jews who were ethnically cleansed from the cities of the
Middle East? Why doesn't the world worry that Nicosia is a more divided
city than Jerusalem, or that Turkey occupies northern Cyprus, or that
China occupies Tibet?

Can Israel Survive?

Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East
and North Africa. Eight million Israelis are surrounded by some 400
million Muslims in more than 20 states. Almost all of Israel's neighbors
are anti-Israeli dictatorships, monarchies or theocracies-- a number of
them reduced to a state of terrorist chaos.

Given the rise of
radical Islam, the huge petrodollar wealth of the Middle East and
lopsided demography, how has Israel so far survived?

The Jewish state has always depended on three unspoken assumptions for its tenuous existence.
First,
a democratic, nuclear Israel can deter larger enemies. In the Cold War,
Soviet-backed Arab enemies understood that Israel's nuclear arsenal
prevented them from destroying Tel Aviv.

Second, the Western
traditions of Israel -- free-market capitalism, democracy, human rights
-- ensured a dynamic economy, high-tech weapons, innovative industry and
stable government. In other words, 8 million Israelis could count on a
greater gross domestic product, less internal violence and more
innovation than, say, nearby Egypt, a mess with 10 times more people
that Israel and nearly 50 times more land.

Third, Israel counted on Western moral support from America and Europe, as well as military support from the United States.

Israel's
stronger allies have often come to the defense of its democratic
principles and pointed out that the world applies an unfair standard to
Israel, largely out of envy of its success, anti-Semitism, fear of
terrorism and fondness of oil exporters.

Why, for example, does
the United Nations focus so much attention on Palestinians who fled
Israel nearly 70 years ago but ignore Muslims who were forced out of
India, or Jews who were ethnically cleansed from the cities of the
Middle East? Why doesn't the world worry that Nicosia is a more divided
city than Jerusalem, or that Turkey occupies northern Cyprus, or that
China occupies Tibet?

Deputy
Press Secretary Eric Schultz responded to a question about whether
Jordan’s plan to make a prisoner trade with ISIS was similar to the U.S.
swapping five Taliban members for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. First, Schultz
said that the U.S. doesn’t negotiate with terrorists. Then he said, “I
don’t think that the Taliban is a terrorist organization…it is an armed
insurgency.”

FOX News
“It slits throats, it attacks buses, it drives car bombs into markets,
it slaughters hundreds of schoolchildren, and it’s not a terrorist
group? Look, you can’t parody this administration,” Charles Krauthammer
said this evening on “Special Report.” This comes at the same time as Al
Jazeera English’s directives not to use words like terrorist,
extremist, Islamist or jihad.

Obamacare Fiasco Will Cost $50,000 Per Person

President Obama’s signature healthcare legislation was sold to the
American people as a way to shield the 30 million Americans without
health insurance from disaster. It would cost $900 billion over ten
years, and it would not add a single dime to the deficit. It would
strengthen the economy, protect America’s most vulnerable, and provide a
shining highway to a bold new future.
Of course, we all knew it was BS from the start. Those who didn’t
know found out when the architect of the law – Jonathan Gruber – was
exposed admitting as much to his liberal colleagues. And those that
didn’t even believe it then are finding out now. The Congressional
Budget Office has released their report on the law’s estimated budget
for the next decade, and they’ve found some discrepancies between the
truth and the promises. In other words, the report has exposed the lies.
Again.
According to the CBO, it will cost the United States $50,000 for
every single person who signs up for insurance under Obamacare. That’s
real taxpayer money, and it translates to about $1.35 trillion over the
next ten years. For the mathematically-challenged, that’s about $135
billion more than Obama promised. What’s even more insidious is that the
CBO projects that 30 million Americans will still be uninsured by the end of the projected time period.

To pay for it, in part, will be more than $600 billion in new taxes,
fees, and penalties attached to the law. That this still leaves a
shortfall of several hundred billion dollars is a matter the
administration would prefer not to address. And if the medical device
tax is overturned, the shortfall will be even more substantial. What
does that do to the national debt? What does that do to the financial
stability of the United States?
When you combine the law’s expansion of Medicaid with its subsidies
for low-earning Americans, the total cost rises to nearly $2 trillion.
Of course, this figure is shockingly distant from the $900 billion Obama
originally promised. His lie of omission was made possible by the
graduated implementation of the law. When he made his promise in 2010,
looking forward ten years, he was able to include a four-year period
where Obamacare would only be partially unveiled. The big spending
didn’t start until last year. Deception and lies, just as Gruber
admitted.
The really frightening thing is that all of these estimates are based
on a best-case-scenario. They do not include the economic effects that
the employer mandate could have on the country. They do not include the
disastrous effects of Obama’s illegal immigration action, which could
encourage employers to choose immigrants over citizens because they
would be exempt from the insurance mandate.
Republicans need to focus on an alternative to Obamacare that can
rally Americans against this despicable waste of money. Repeal efforts
will be in vain if there is not a sensible plan put forth. We need that
plan right now, before we go so far down the Obamacare path that voters
forget how awful it really is.

- See more
at:
http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/obamacare-fiasco-will-cost-50000-per-person/#sthash.5aoB0v6F.dpuf

Followers

Follow My Posts by Email

The Patriot Factor

I am an American Patriot...part of the grassroots movement of bloggers spreading the truth the media will not. I am also co-host with Craig Andresen of RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS on American Political Radio. http://listen.samcloud.com/w/73891/American-Political-Radio#history